Library items tagged: UK Federation

Session Expiration for Federated Users

Melissa van der Hecht
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 13:25
UK Federation
institutional login
login
logout
session
session expiration
There are cases when you are logged out automatically from the Janet Community website - your session expires if you have used an Institutional Login.  This is for security reasons, since you will have a session open both between our Service Provider and your institution's Identity Provider, and also a local session on our website; we need to ensure that when you are logged out of one you will be logged out of the other. There are a number of timeouts set.  You will be logged out automatically when:
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Institutional Login

Simon Cooper
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 11:59
Institutional_login
Organisational_login
UK Federation
federated_login
Your Institutional (or Federated) Login details are the set of credentials provided by your home organisation, for example, your college, university, or local authority. Numerous Janet websites supported federated login, including this website (Jisc Community), JISCMail, and JVCS Booking Service. Advantages:
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